Comments on: Forget About Paid Links: Comment Spamming Kicks Butt

By: WordPress SEO

WordPress SEO — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:27:46 +0000

And Alfred’s still there!

He should add some more content, find something to sell and do some real SEO.

Nice clear case study though. Confirms personal experience but our data is more mixed and to see a clear case like this really helps.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:30:01 +0000

@Gotan Raider: “I bet that from their POV…” Matt Cutts—and many others—have pointed to commenting as a legitimate way to get links.

“… embarrassing evidence that nofollow is inconsistent …” Alfred said: “I’ve not looked into how many of the blogs I’ve left comments in are in fact no-follow …”

@Nature Wallpaper: Commenting, when not nofollowed, can pass PR. ANY link, when not nofollowed, CAN pass PR. Google does block links from passing PR at their discretion, but tests show they don’t block all PR from all comments.

By: Comment Spamming? Really? Says Who? | evernerve.com

Comment Spamming? Really? Says Who? | evernerve.com — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:41:31 +0000

[...] Recently, I have been reading about comment spamming. You know, where you go around various blogs and leave your comment just to get a link. And I don’t agree that it doesn’t work, because black hat SEO diary proved that comment spamming still works. [...]

By: Web Video

Web Video — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:21:57 +0000

I wrote my own “Comment” blog finder software. Results are mixed, but if done right does increase traffic.

BeachBum Michael

By: Nature Wallpaper

Nature Wallpaper — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:53:18 +0000

commenting does not work in increasing a PR for any site, I am 100 percent sure. It does build a brand image but nothing that will help the effectiveness of the site.

By: roguespammer

roguespammer — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:26:00 +0000

Comment Spam even though nofollowed has been helping rankings for awhile.

By: Headways SEO Consulting

Headways SEO Consulting — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:44:51 +0000

Blog comments work… obviously.

By: taky

taky — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:21:47 +0000

Thanks, your blog is fantastic also. Oh and according to the post, thanks for the +rank

Do you have some kind of IM?

By: Gotan Raider

Gotan Raider — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:13:10 +0000

@ Florin: It’s all good. Happy to have my readers contributing to the discussion. Thanks for pointing that out.

@Alfred: The reason I think you are being naive is because Google has hundreds if not thousands of human reviewers applying manual penalties to sites that they consider are cheating the system.

And I bet that from their POV your post is a description of how you cheated their algo. Furthermore, it is an embarrassing evidence that nofollow is inconsistent to say the least. Not that we didn’t know that already

So yes, I think you are being naive by being open about this. Even if you don’t consider you did any spamming.

By: Alfred Fox

Alfred Fox — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:50:47 +0000

Ok, I’d like the opportunity to eat my words. Foot in mouth style. I checked out comment sniper, and it’s legit. 100%, good stuff Duncan. I played with it for a while, and it does everything it professes to be, and NO it is not spam. Not at all. I’m sorry I said that, It’s a great piece of software and I’m a little perplexed why it’s given away for free.. that’s how good it is. I’m a huge fan (after about 3 hrs.) Forgive my ‘Nay saying”